Horace Ode 4.15 names the Augustan Age, defining a bounded period of history by reference to Augustus' mortal lifespan (aetas). By contrast, poetry's command of immortality gives the poet, not the ...

According to tradition, on September 21 in 19 B.C., Publius Vergilius Maro, known as Vergil, died on the return from his voyage to Greece, in the seaport town of Brundisium in Southern Italy. Having ...

An important development of the Augustan era was that the printed word became readily available Augustan literature is the body of work produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I and ...

According to the Roman historian Suetonius, Augustus boasted that he had found Rome a city of mudbrick and left it a city of marble: “Marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset,” in his words ...

General view of the site looking south, from the foreground to the background: pre-Augustan walls (at the bottom of the pit), Augustan buildings (forge), late Augustan monumental building, late La ...